Ledyard - Places in The United States

Famous quotes containing the words united states, places in, places, united and/or states:

“In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear—the city of London and the South Seas.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)